. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 6.

Published in final edited form as: Appl Psycholinguist. 2007 Dec 12;29(1):3–19. doi: 10.1017/S0142716408080016

Table 1.

Percentage of families of the children with typical language development (TLD) and language impairment (LI) in each category of educational level and eligibility for lunch program

Characteristic	TLD (n = 47)			LI (n = 24)
Characteristic	EL1 (n = 15)	Bilingual (n = 16)	EL2 (n = 16)	EL1 (n = 13)	Bilingual (n = 11)
Educational level in the home
Primary and some secondary education	21.4	33.3	23	25	0
High school graduate	14.3	20	54	66.7	70
Eligibility for lunch program
Free or reduced	53.3	50	75	76.9	54.5
Regular	46.7	50	25	23.1	45.4

Note: EL1, English as a first language speakers; EL2, English as a second language learner.